Slasher
The genre of video games "slasher" focuses on defeating enemies using piercing and cutting weapons. Typically, these are single-player or cooperative games where the main characters must overcome large groups of various enemies, who are most often monsters. It is a related genre to "beat them all," where the essence remains the same, but fists are used instead of weapons.
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Platforms
Statuses
Best Games in the Slasher genre of 2017 (Game released)
Game released: PC, Mac, PlayStation 4, iOS, Nintendo Switch, Android → 17 November 2016
Players:
10/10
Steam:
79/100
Metacritic:
79/100
ICEY is a side-scrolling sci-fi arcade action platformer. At first glance, this game is a regular platformer where you follow directions and go where you are told...
Game released: PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5 → 13 February 2017
Players:
7.5/10
Steam:
68/100
Metacritic:
78/100
For Honor is a competitive medieval-fantasy action game about sword fights and large-scale battlefields. You will take part in team battles for territory with many...
Game released: PlayStation 4, PC, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5 → 8 August 2017
Players:
8.4/10
Steam:
89/100
Metacritic:
83/100
The game takes you on a dark and ruthless journey into the depths of the mind, where the lines between reality and madness blur. The story follows a warrior named...
Game released: Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii U, PC, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, PlayStation 4 → 22 February 2011
Players:
7.7/10
Steam:
92/100
Metacritic:
87/100
Bayonetta is a fantastic action-slasher game with a third-person view. Bayonetta is the only survivor of an ancient clan of witches that maintained the balance...
Role-playing game, Action, Slasher, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Open world, Hunting / Fishing
Game released: PlayStation 4, PS Vita, PlayStation 3, PC → 21 March 2017
Steam:
80/100
Metacritic:
77/100
Toukiden 2 is a sequel to the Japanese-style action RPG about demon hunters. You will take on the role of the mysterious Slayer, who has awakened after a ten-year...
Game released: Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Wii U, PC, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S → 22 November 2016
Players:
7.8/10
Steam:
86/100
Metacritic:
79/100
An updated version of a dark action-slasher that combines brutal battles, adventure elements, and the atmosphere of a biblical apocalypse. At the center of the...
Role-playing game, Action, Third-person view, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Exploration, Slasher, Japanese role-playing game
Game released: PlayStation 4, PS Vita, Nintendo Switch, PC → 24 October 2017
Players:
10/10
Steam:
75/100
Metacritic:
66/100
Nights of Azure 2: Bride of the New Moon is a Japanese-style third-person action RPG. The setting is a fictional Western European city in the late 19th century. The...
Action, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Anime / Manga, Slasher, MMO, Role-playing game, Online
Game released: PC, PlayStation 4, PS Vita → 12 September 2017
Players:
10/10
Steam:
74/100
Metacritic:
64/100
Accel World VS. Sword Art Online is an adventure role-playing action-slasher game with a third-person view in a fantasy setting. In the game you will have to...
Role-playing game, Third-person view, Anime / Manga, Fantasy, Exploration, Slasher, Japanese role-playing game
Game released: PlayStation 3, PS Vita, PlayStation 4, PC → 1 October 2015
Players:
10/10
Steam:
69/100
Metacritic:
67/100
Nights of Azure is a third-person action role-playing game in Japanese style. The game is developed by the creator of Fatal Frame, in which players will play as two...
Arcade, Action, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Board / Group Game, Post-apocalyptic, Cooperative (co-op), Indie, Slasher
Game released: PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One → 6 June 2017
Players:
10/10
Steam:
83/100
Neighborhorde is a fun cooperative action game with an isometric camera view in a post-apocalyptic setting. You will try on the role of brave animals who, using...
Role-playing game, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Fantasy / Medieval, Roguelike, Open world, Slasher
Game released: PC, Mac, Linux, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch → 1 September 2017
Players:
10/10
Steam:
80/100
Metacritic:
70/100
Songbringer is a top-down sci-fi RPG adventure with a procedurally generated world. The events of the game will tell about a hero who did not want to save the world...
Adventure, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Virtual Reality (VR), Exploration, Slasher, Survival
Game released: PC, PlayStation 4 → 18 May 2017
Steam:
62/100
Metacritic:
66/100
Detached is a first-person space adventure for Oculus Rift, OSVR and HTC Vive virtual reality devices. The events of the game tell the story of two corporations...
